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1960 Technology & Gadgets
The Answering Machine
Kazuo Hashimoto Invents the Ansafone sold in the USA as an Automatic Telephone Answering Machine
Weather Satellite
The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.
AT&T Labs launched Echo, a giant balloon to bounce signals between ground based receivers.
The Rank Xerox Standard 1385 copying machine goes to market |
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1960 Toys & Gadgets
Chatty Cathy
First popular talking doll, spoke 11 random phrases at the pull of a string. The original voice was June Foray who also did the voice of Rocket J. Squirrel in the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons
The Brits successfully enter the American toy market with Legos.
Etch-a-Sketch
High tech toy from France
More Gadgets
The Modem Bell Telephone Laboratories invent the modem using the binary code patented by Jean-Emile Baudot in 1874.
The Laser Theodore Maiman uses a synthetic ruby to build first true laser.
Teflon Non-sticking cookware goes on sale at Macy's in New York
The ATM The Hologram Heart Pacemaker |
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